The Deutschland-Ticket tourist trap

I have another solution, the one we use in my country but you guys won't like it...

:) 0:15 are you in Frankfurt or are you in "for example" Frankfurt? 🤣😇

Your Mo.Pla hint was life saving. The authentication process through the official DB portal/app was absolutely ridicilous. it wanted me to download some verification app which was not functional as a foreigner. I couldn't get it to work. It's about buying a freaking monthly pass, not buying a house for f.. sake

God help me cancel this deutsche ticket this shit drives me crazy

I think its unrealistic that this ticket will Go away. Many people Are using it.
Also 59€ in current days is a good Price. Of course its Not extreme cheap. But in my opinion its still very cheap. 2€ per day.

I am planning to travel to Germany for 3 weeks in July or August. Currently, what is the best way to avail this Deutschland travel pass on all modes of transport in Germany (understand ICE and high speed are not allowed under this pass). What is the current cost of this ticket, and can i buy it online prior to my arrival. Any help will be greatly appreciated

It's perfect for tourist who want to travel Germany. It's easy via app to cancel the ABO at every moment. Doing it often

With my D Ticket for May 2025. Can I go to Munich HBF and jump on an RE to Regensburg freely or do I need to go on DB app?

I also had fallen for that trap! I Bought it on 19th of March, so I couldn't cancel it before 10th of March in order not to pay for the whole April! The worse thing is that the website says the ticket can be refunded before the new ticket starts, but of course there is no form to request that. Now i lost 58 euro for nothing.

Have you bought Deutschland ticket using mo.pla app yourself? Is it reliable? Some reviews say that this app is scam

It’s worth it to buy it even if you’re in Germany for a week

Even now with 58 euros you will take 3 trains and it’s already worth it. I personally always get it through the HVV Hamburg transport app. Very easy to setup and cancel with a press of one or two buttons.

still kinda weird that the d-ticket costs less than the monthly ticket I would have paid my regional company for the "local network".

9 EUR ticket was great. 49 EUR ticket is overcomplicated.

buy it then cancel it immediately, that's what i done.

Honestly, still waiting for the day i randomly spot you on one of my trains in the Frankfurt area... haha

Time to copy past the Dutch ov chip card system. Or skip that and go directly to tap to pay. Welkom to 2025.

Hello, may i ask smth. So i will travel to germany in 16-28 May. If i use db ticket, should i cancel it on 10 may? Can i still use it on 16 may?

if cancelled before the 10th of the month its never a. problem.. i now have one from VBS bremen-niedersachsen

kind of stupid it's by calendar month

I bought the D Ticket on 14th of the month, which eventually meant that It will auto renew the next month even though I cancelled the subscription immediately after buying it.

Very hard to understand 😕

I was able to cancel it immediately via the app (where I bought it with paypal). I am confused with this video.

We had one, so we stayed longer than we intended in Germany and went to many regional places. I get that it's meant for residents, but it was the shoulder season so not very busy, and we stayed in many hotels and visited many sites we couldn't afford otherwise as retirees. I would like a similar ticket for visitors, but perhaps 3x the cost. It's a great idea.

Just let us buy it from a ticket machine

Actually, I think D-Ticket should be forbidden for non residents, since it's supported by our taxes, not theirs.

Bietet Mopla das Ticket ohne Schufa an?

Well, the ticket is heavily subsidised from the Federal Budget so that's kind of the point behind it... it's supposed to the for residents that pay their taxes in Germany.

I've used mopla before (or rather, set it up for my mum to use) when it was already past the 12th and she needed a ticket for just the one month. It worked fine

To be completely honest, the D Ticket is probably one of the best German initiative in recent years. I might say it is probably one of the only good thing DB has. It has become so familiar and convenient that when I travel out of Germany and have to change city during my trip, it feels so bad.

Bro 49€ to travel all of germany excluding fast trains is amazing. I signed up in like 5 minutes and cancelled in 30 seconds. Stop bickering

Germans love to make everything so complicated

in Prague and the Central Bohemian Region, we have the Lítačka card, which allows you to go in any of the tariff zones you pay for. It's not a subscription service and you have to renew it manually, which is a much better system imo. There's no surprise payments if you take care of them yourself, and if you suddenly can't pay, you can just not buy it then, and buy it when you can.

Car infrastructure costs many times the amount necessary to build and maintain railways.

So it's only logical to reduce spending on roads to keep the Deutschlandticket at its relatively affordable price.

With the different carriers in Germany, it is also rather idiotic at times.
Lets say, Hamm/Westfalen. A single ticket that has you head from the main station to near the Oberlandesgericht, puts you back 2.80 Euro, one way. Same with Herringen to Werries, nearly the longest distance (only stop further out than Werries is Uentrop, which is fully detached from the city proper).

Now, Bochum, from Dahlhausen to the near last stop in Bochum-Werne (nearly in Dortmund), same logic applied. 3 times the distance, all by bus. 3.40 Euro.

Basically, either the Stadtwerke Hamm (who run Hamm's transit) are making fat bank, or Bochum/Gelsenkirchen (they collaborate for their public transit and also have tram and underground tram lines) are running themselves into bancruptcy.

And this has been the case for nearly 2 decades now.

i dont think its nice to call it a tourist trap. Its not designed for tourists.

now the DB struggles with a huge scam. they withdrew the costs for the D-Ticket multie times from many customers. And totally fail to handle the problem. The whole DB has become a huge failure

To be fair the terms are probably so bad on purpose to deter tourists from getting it since it's heavily subsidized meant for residents. As a Swiss I find it very weird though that it's sold by all kinds of regional transport companies instead of just one central company like for example DB.

When my girlfriend came to visit, I got her a D-Ticket, but since she arrived after the 10th, I had to pay for the next month too even though she would have left. But I didn't mind, it was only 49€ and it also went to a project that I like and support so it's fine. Also I was contacted for a poll and they asked me if I'd keep the ticket if it got more expensive and I said yes. Honestly I already overpay, I only use the tram a couple times a month, and some months I don't even use it, and I take the trains even less, and when I want to go somewhere I take the ICE anyways, but the convenience of not having to check for a ticket and look for a validation booth, some have them outside, some are inside, it can get very confusing, having to carry small change with me... skipping all that is totally worth the 49€ to me

The long cancellation span thing is plagueing so many system in Germany. It is a source of endless amounts of headache, a money sink with no value and a spending inhibitor.